The power plant had its own protection team.
After a few strange fires and explosions, the Red Dragon Army had also sent a special squad to the power plant.
This was Northern Mountain District, which was located to the north of the city. The abnormal beast research department also had a regional operation team stationed there.
The three squads searched the area more than ten times, but they found nothing.
Meng Chao still felt uneasy. He had a bad feeling about this.
At around ten o 'clock in the evening, a mysterious thick fog spread out from the void, emitting a faint blue and red light. Gradually, it connected with the dark clouds that hung low in the night sky like a whirlpool.
Along with ear-splitting shrieks, the night sky seemed to have been ripped apart by a pair of invisible hands. In every direction of the city, enormous, glittering eyeballs that looked like a hybrid of an octopus and a jellyfish flew out of the cracks, wobbling and dragging tentacles.
The Demonic Air Ripping Eyes were the vanguards of the monster invasion.
They did not have great fighting strength, but they could release sharp mind attacks and bombard a human's cerebral cortex, causing their mental strength indices to plummet, and they would be devoured by fear and confusion.
Over the past few times when the fog descended, the number of Demonic Air Ripping Eyes had increased.
There were so many of them that it made people think that there was a mysterious power controlling them from behind the scenes.
Besides, the Demonic Air Ripping Eyes were evolving.
Not only did the mutated Death Fishers with incredibly sturdy tentacles that could shoot them down from more than one hundred meters in the air to sweep away humans, they also appeared.
A large number of new species that could interfere with human networks and cut off all optical cables and wireless communications appeared.
The monster researchers called these mutated creatures the Demonic Chaos Eye.
It meant that once they appeared on the battlefield, they would block all communication channels and cut off all communication between the enemy and their allies.
To humans, who were well-organized and skilled in fighting together, this was naturally a huge problem.
Meng Chao stood at the highest point of the power plant. He was on a cooling tower that spewed out steam like a volcano eruption. He stared at the night sky, which was dyed in all sorts of colors by the dark light released by the Demonic Air Ripping Eyes.
Under the nightmarish night sky, the short-distance dimensional portals had already been opened. Monsters gathered in groups and appeared in the streets and alleys of Dragon City in a mighty wave. Even the most common monsters like Demonic Halberd Pigs and Iron-armored Rhinoceroses were much larger and deformed than when the fog descended when Meng Chao had just returned to the past.
Their eyes were bloodshot, and they were foaming at the mouth. Their muscles were contorted from excessive tension. Driven by their killing instincts, they began to attack the fortified communities and skyscrapers.
"Da da da da!"
The anti-aircraft cannons that were spread all over the city started firing. Under the guidance of the tracer bullets, fire snakes soared into the sky and gathered into a destructive giant wave that swept toward the hundreds of Demonic Air Ripping Eyes.
Some of the Demonic Air Ripping Eyes were entangled by the fiery snakes and were instantly riddled with holes. They let out shrill sounds that sounded like balloons bursting. They waved their tentacles and danced madly in the night sky. This strange scene was even more terrifying than the mental attacks they released.
More Demonic Air Ripping Eyes released strange force fields around them and changed the trajectory of the bullets, causing the bullets to brush past them by a hair's breadth.
Humans and monsters were learning how to fight.
At the same time humans developed the Ultimate Style and other advanced fighting models that could be used against monsters, monsters were also evolving. They were becoming less afraid of human bullets, or at least, the long-distance attacks from normal bullets.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Fortunately, the humans still had rocket launchers.
Some of the soldiers who were lying in ambush on the skyscrapers with heat-tracking shoulder-launched rocket launchers had long since locked onto their prey. When the Demonic Air Ripping Eyes descended to a height of less than one hundred meters, the soldiers calmly pulled the trigger.
To avoid being attacked by the mental attacks of the Demonic Air Ripping Eyes, the moment they fired, the soldiers closed their eyes.
But the rocket launchers with heat-tracking could still accurately find their targets.
This time, the interference force fields were not very useful. The Demonic Air Ripping Eyes turned into dazzling fireworks.
As the fireworks shone, more space was torn, and more Demonic Air Ripping Eyes crawled out.
For a period of time, more than one hundred residential areas and hundreds of skyscrapers in the city were attacked by monsters at the same time.
The barbed wire that was connected to high voltage crackled and shone with blinding sparks.
The searchlights illuminated the battlefields in the residential areas, making it look as bright as day. All the monsters with mimicry and invisibility abilities were unable to hide.
The electromagnetic towers also released dazzling electric arcs. They were like unstoppable sabers that cut and burned the raging monsters.
The impregnable fortresses needed a lot of electricity to support them.
The five main power plants in Dragon City were all operating at an overload.
After an hour of intense fighting, the garbage power plant in the north of the city still did not show any signs of abnormal activity. Aside from two units being temporarily paralyzed due to being overloaded for a long period of time, there were no obvious signs of arson or explosions.
"Could it be that the monsters haven't lurked here?" Lu Siya asked Meng Chao through the communication channel.
"I don't know."
Meng Chao shook his head. He stared at the night sky without blinking and mumbled, "The weather bureau said that the fog will last for a long time this time. The battle might last from night until dawn. If I were a monster and had great intelligence, I wouldn't choose to attack now.
"If I wait until dawn, the power plant will have been operating at an overload for an entire night. The humans will be at their weakest, and their defenses will be at their weakest. Wouldn't it be better for me to attack then?"
Meng Chao sat cross-legged on the chimney and entered deep meditation.
He had become a three-star superhuman and awakened to a lot of his previous life's memories, so he could face the war-ravaged Dragon City with absolute calmness.
Even if the Demonic Air Ripping Eyes let out piercing screeches and released mental attacks that were like tidal waves, they could not disturb him in the slightest.
He even consciously expanded his vitality magnetic field to sense the monsters' vitality magnetic fields in an attempt to find the secret behind how more than one hundred different monsters could fight together.
Time ticked by.
The monsters' offense did not show any signs of weakening.
Even the steel corporations near the garbage power plant were under increasing pressure.
The Red Dragon Army special forces stationed there and some of the factory protection squads suddenly gathered together and rushed out of the garbage power plant.
"What's going on?"
Meng Chao's eyes flew open and he asked Lu Siya through the communication channel, "Where are they going?"
"The steel corporations are being ambushed by a large number of monsters. There seem to be dozens of Nightmarish Beasts and a few Hell Beasts mixed among them. The factory protection squads of the steel factories are about to be unable to hold them back, so they're rushing over to provide reinforcements!"
"I know what you're worried about, but if the defense lines of the steel corporations can't be defended and the monsters seize the chance to break through here, the power plant will still be destroyed!"
"Where's Captain Ye?"
Meng Chao was stunned. "There have to be more elites in the abnormal beast research department, right?"
"Half a minute ago, two power plants in the middle and south of the city exploded mysteriously at the same time. It's suspected that abnormal beasts have appeared," Lu Siya said.
"Captain Ye brought Group 9 to 'put out the fire'."
Meng Chao scoffed.
He suddenly calmed down.
His nostrils flared, and he sucked in a deep breath. "Do you smell something? I think it's … some oily, flammable substance."
"Yes," Lu Siya said.
"And there's quite a lot of them. They're crawling up from underground through the pipes."
They were rats.
Just when a portion of the defense forces protecting the power plant were mobilized to ambush the steel corporations, thousands of rats suddenly crawled out from the underground of the power plant.
These rats were unlike any rat-type monster Meng Chao had ever seen before.
They were oily and round. Their limbs were thin and short, and their movements were incredibly clumsy. Forget about Meng Chao, even the well-trained shooters of the Red Dragon Army could easily hit them.
But once they were shot, they usually did not die instantly. Instead, because the flammable substance filling their stomachs came into contact with the air, they would turn into burning fireballs with loud whooshes.
When they were burned by the flames and stimulated by extreme pain, the originally slow-moving rats' speed increased by leaps and bounds. At the same time they moved about, the flames spread to the maximum.
For a period of time, as the crackling sounds of gunfire rose, hundreds of fireballs screamed and moved about in the power plant, and the situation was incredibly chaotic.
Fortunately, the abnormal beast research department had predicted the risk of fire and explosions, so they contacted the fire department and arranged for an elite firefighting force to be stationed there.
Among them were a few elites who were skilled in heat transfer.
In truth, there were quite a number of superhumans who were skilled in creating spirit energy magnetic fields and turning chemical energy into electricity or electricity into heat among the engineers in the power plant.
Thud!
More than ten fire trucks lined up in a row and sprayed water pillars that looked like dragons at the place where the Fire Rats were the densest. More than a hundred burning Fire Rats were blown away.
The engineers in the power plant mumbled by the side. Their spirit tattoos spread from the center of their eyebrows to their fingertips. Their fingers turned into two balls of gray fog that created exquisite spirit energy magnetic fields. They turned the water droplets from the fire trucks into crystalline ice crystals.
The ground instantly froze. Quite a number of Flame Rats' limbs were frozen on the ground. Even if the oil on their bodies was still burning madly, they could not take even half a step forward.
Gradually, the ice turned into ice spikes, and the ice spikes gathered together to form an ice wall. The ice wall formed a small valley of ice that trapped most of the Flame Rats inside.
The Flame Rats struggled fiercely in an attempt to crawl out of the valley, but even if they succeeded, most of the flames on their bodies were extinguished, and they were badly burned. They were on the verge of death, so there was no way they would have the strength to continue attacking the vital parts of the power plant.
Besides, Lu Siya was still in the air, helping them.
After sparring with Meng Chao for more than half a year, she had gradually turned from a support-class superhuman to a fighting-class superhuman. She had already perfected her Spike Art.
When she saw any rat that slipped through the net, she snapped her fingers, and a string of fine spikes shot out quietly and pinned the Flame Rats to the ground.
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